Joe Wilson

That's the commandment for members of the House of Representatives and the Senate ahead of Pope Francis' unprecedented address Thursday morning to a joint meeting of Congress.

Francis will become the first pope to speak in the House chamber, an event that has lawmakers from Roman Catholic House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to freshmen backbenchers downright giddy with excitement.

But House and Senate leaders are imploring lawmakers to do something that's proven difficult for them: contain themselves.

No hand-shaking, no back-slapping and no chitchat with the leader of the world's 1.2 billion...

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